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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (82998)	9/8/2008 10:09:16 PM
From: Katelew	of 541659

Brian....I don't find Obama's consideration of military service strange at all. I lived in Hawaii for about five years as a child, fifteen years before Obama. Because of the attack on Pearl Harbor, military history there is widespread. There were/are 3 bases on that one island.....the naval one at Pearl Harbor, as well the Air Force one at Hickam and another facility at, I think, Wheeler. I remember going to a military museum of sorts in Honolulu, and there are naval ships in Pearl Harbor that have been made in monuments and a beautiful military cemetary up in the hills. My family had a sailboat and we sailed into Pearl Harbor frequently to look at the wreckage that was still there (surely all cleaned out now). On the windward side of the island there were craters adjacent to the beaches created by bombs that we children played "war" in. My father was career Air Force and we lived all over the world and the country, but I never saw a concentration of military objects and culture and history like there was on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. I think all of this might have ignited plenty of fantasies in most young men living there.

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